OMU International Psychology Seminar (2025)

1st Seminar

【日時】2025年7月17日（木）16:30～18:30

【会場】大阪公立大学 梅田サテライト（ホール）

   （〒530-0001 大阪府大阪市北区梅田１丁目２−２−６００ 大阪駅前第２ビル 6F）

【話者】Dr. Hirotaka Imada (Royal Holloway, University of London) &  Prof. Motoki Watabe (Sunway University)

【発表タイトル・要旨】

Hirotaka Imada

Title: Climate change as an inherently intergroup issue: intergroup cooperation in intergenerational social dilemmas

Abstract: Issues related to sustainability (e.g., climate change) often manifest themselves as intergenerational social dilemmas, where people are faced with a choice between self-serving, unsustainable behaviour and sustainable, personally costly behaviour. Extending the previous literature on (nonintergenerational) intergroup cooperation, we tested whether group membership of the future generations influenced sustainable decision making. In two preregistered studies using the intergenerational sustainability dilemma game, we found that individuals were more likely to make a sustainable (vs. selfish) decision when they believed that their current behaviours would benefit future ingroup members, whereas more selfish decisions were made when benefits would accrue to outgroup members. These findings held in both the minimal group and national group contexts. The results suggest that efforts to promote sustainability by highlighting benefits to outgroup members may backfire. The results will be discussed in relation to the broader literature on ingroup favouritism in (nonintergenerational) social dilemmas and the implications for designing more effective climate communication strategies.

Motoki Watabe & Daisuke Nakama

Title:  Team Membership Fluidity Sustains Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Cooperative Climate: Evidence from Agent-based Simulation and Workplace Survey

Abstract: Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) is vital for collective success. However, its long-term sustainability in repeated interactions holds a theoretical challenge, particularly when viewed through the lens of evolutionary models of cooperation where OCB can be seen as a cooperation in a social dilemma. Integrating this evolutionary perspective with social exchange theory, we investigate how cooperative climate and team membership fluidity jointly influence the persistence of OCB. We propose that a cooperative climate, which fosters the perception of personal benefits from OCB, becomes more effective in sustaining collective OCB when team membership fluidity is high. We tested this proposition through a two-study design. Study 1, an agent-based evolutionary simulation, revealed that OCB persists only when it is personally beneficial, and its long-term prevalence is significantly enhanced by high team fluidity in such beneficial environments. Study 2, a confirmatory field study with 222 managers, empirically replicated this crucial interaction: a strong cooperative climate was positively associated with collective OCB sustainability, and this association was substantially stronger when team membership fluidity was high. Our findings highlight that fluidity is not inherently beneficial but rather acts as a moderator, realizing the positive impact of a cooperative climate by allowing cooperators to escape exploitation in a fixed relationship. This research contributes to OCB and organizational dynamics literature by offering a novel, multi-method explanation for OCB sustainability and provides practical implications for fostering prosocial behavior in dynamic organizational structures.

【使用言語】英語（ただし質問やコメント等は日本語でしていただいても結構です）

OMU International Psychology Seminar (2023)

2nd Seminar 

【日時】2023年7月21日（金）13:00～14:30

【会場】大阪公立大学杉本キャンパス文学部棟 L355教室

【話者】Dr. Ken Fujiwara (National Chung Cheng University 國立中正大學) (https://sites.google.com/view/socialinteractionlabccu/)

【発表タイトル・要旨】

"Interpersonal coordination in dyadic interaction: Methodological developments and theoretical challenges"

Interpersonal coordination is defined as "the degree to which the behaviors in an interaction are nonrandom, patterned, or synchronized in both timing and form” (Bernieri & Rosenthal, 1991, p. 403), which is subdivided into behavioral matching, interactional synchrony, and behavioral meshing. Social psychologists who study such nonverbal behavioral patterns have suffered from the great cost of manual coding for a long time (Murphy & Hall, 2021; Murphy et al., 2015, 2019), but now benefit from automated coding techniques using computer vision and time series analysis (Fujiwara & Daibo, 2022; Fujiwara & Yokomitsu, 2021). In this talk, the speaker will introduce recent methodological developments and future challenges in the research field as he showcases his (un)published studies. 

【使用言語】英語（ただし質問やコメント等は日本語でしていただいても結構です）

1st Seminar

【日時】2023年5月13日（土）13:00～14:30

【会場】大阪公立大学杉本キャンパス文学部棟 L355教室

【話者】Dr. Adam W. Stivers (Gonzaga University) (https://www.gonzaga.edu/college-of-arts-sciences/faculty-listing/detail/stivers)

【発表タイトル・要旨】

"Attraction to Relationships as a Function of Social Interdependence in Japan, the USA, and Poland"

In their theory of social interdependence, Harold Kelley and John Thibaut (1978) proposed that social relationships differ in the extent to which people depend on one another or have control over one another’s outcomes. In the current research, we replicated a study by Grzelak et al., (2010) which investigated how differences in social interdependence affect locomotion toward a social relationship, operationalized in the form of a matrix game. We further explored how individual differences in preferences for control (autonomy, respect, dominance, passivity, collaboration), cultural differences (Japan, USA, Poland), and partner information (trustworthy, unknown, not trustworthy) influence locomotion towards 25 different social interdependence structures.  

【使用言語】英語

OMU International Psychology Workshop (2023)

1st Workshop 

【日時】2023年4月28日（金）15:00～18:00

【会場】大阪公立大学杉本キャンパス文学部棟 L355教室

＜Part 1＞ 15:00～16:00

【話者】Dr. Adam W. Stivers (Gonzaga University)

【発表タイトル・要旨】

"Preferences for Control in Socially Interdependent Relationships"

Social interdependence is a characteristic of all social interactions where at least one individual depends on at least one other individual to attain a valued outcome (instead of a less valued outcome). Thus, research on social interdependence has wide ranging implications for understanding phenomena such as the evolution of cooperative species and addressing a wide range of problems including resource management, climate change, organizational citizenship, romantic relationships, and intergroup relations.

A rich tradition of research in psychology, economics, political science, biology, sociology, and other disciplines has examined how people behave in situations with varying degrees of social interdependence, specifically focusing on decisions whether to benefit oneself at the expense of others (defection) or to benefit others through self-sacrifice (cooperation). Comparatively less attention has been focused on how individuals come to be in socially interdependent relationships, referred to as “locomotion”.

Kelley and Thibaut (1978) proposed that systematic differences in social interdependence can be used to explain locomotion towards (or away from) different social relationships. In their model,  socially interdependent situations differ with respect to the types of outcomes (own, other) and also the types of control over those outcomes (self, other, joint). With a foundation for how socially interdependent relationships differ, a team of researchers in Poland led by Janusz Grzelak set out to address the question “what types of people would locomote towards and away from each social arrangement.”. This led to the development of an inventory to measure how individuals differ in their preferences for the five types of control described in Kelley and Thibaut’s (1978) social interdependence theory. In the current research, we have further refined the Control Orientations Inventory and validated it in Poland, the USA, and Japan.

The resulting Control Orientations Inventory (COI) consists of five scales, each corresponding to a different type of control in socially interdependent relationships. The Autonomy scale measures the desire to have control over one’s own outcomes. In contrast, the Passivity scale measures a desire for a partner to have control over one’s own outcomes. Individuals can also have preferences for how a partner’s outcomes are controlled. Specifically, the Respect scale measures the individual’s desire for the partner’s control over his/her outcomes. In contrast, the Dominance scale measures one’s desire to have control over their partner’s outcomes. Finally, the Collaboration scale measures the extent that people prefer to have both own outcomes and partner outcomes jointly controlled (teamwork).

Grounded in Social Interdependence Theory, the COI is a novel and useful instrument for understanding locomotion towards social dilemmas and other interdependence structures. This work has wide ranging implications for understanding phenomena such as the evolution of cooperative species and addressing a wide range of problems including resource management, climate change, organizational citizenship, romantic relationships, and business transactions.

＜Part 2＞ 16:00～17:00

【話者】前田楓（立教大学現代心理学部 助教）

【発表タイトル】"Cooperators Pay More Attention to the Outcome of Mutual Cooperation in the One-Shot Prisoner’s Dilemma Game: Empirical Evidence From an Eye-Tracking Study."

【話者】山本佳祐（京都文教大学総合社会学部 特任講師）

【発表タイトル】"Empathic Concern in Altruistic Behavior: An Experimental Study Using The Dictator Game with Loss Potential"

＜Part 3＞ 17:15～18:00

大学院生・学部生による英語での研究アイデア発表

【使用言語】英語（ただし質問やコメント等は日本語でしていただいても結構です）

特別講座「クリエイティブ・ライティング　－ 美しくて、意外性もあり、人に伝わる文章を書く－」

【講師】松宮宏（大阪公立大学文学部　客員教授）

【日時】2023年6月28日（水）13:00～16:30、7月5日（水）13:00～16:30

【使用言語】日本語